Investing in the Content--Older
Published on Jan 30, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Why use textbooks?
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Why use textbooks?
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Textbooks provide you with several advantages in the classroom:
Textbooks are especially helpful for beginning teachers. The material to be covered and the design of each lesson are carefully spelled out in detail.
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A textbook series provides you with a balanced, chronological presentation of information.
Textbooks are a detailed sequence of teaching procedures that tell you what to do and when to do it. There are no surprises—everything is carefully spelled out.
(teachingvision.com)
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Textbooks provide organized units of work. A textbook gives you all the plans and lessons you need to cover a topic in some detail.
Provide administrators and teachers with a complete program. includes latest research and teaching strategies.
Good textbooks are excellent teaching aids. They're a resource for both teachers and students.
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Not a single teacher has ever told us how easy their textbooks are to read and how much their kids enjoy them. --Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis (2007)
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Nobody has ever come up to us clutching their textbook and raving about how they love it.
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"Two pages on Walt Whitman, a paragraph on Hiroshima, or a sidebar about Einstein's theory of relativity just doesn't get the job done."
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Texts are superficial. --Although lengthy, "these books just scratch the surface because they contain too much material."
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"Textbooks are often inaccurate."
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Science textbooks also frequently contain errors in the content (Rice, 2002), which can lead to student misconceptions (Abimbola, I. O. & Baba, S., 1996).
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Content errors that were found include periodic tables that did not include new elements, pictures of prisms bending light the wrong way, and a compass with the East and West directions reversed. con (p. 306).
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We have learned the more difficult the text, the more interactive the read must be, and the more need there is to talk about it.
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What can one do with a trade book that can't be done with a text book?
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Research has shown that students can benefit from the inclusion of trade books, but they must be of high quality (Morrow, Pressley, Smith, & Smith, Wigfield, & VonSecker, 2000; Fang &Wei, 2010).
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To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can’t wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship.”
—Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke
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Trade books—whether picture books, fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—have the potential to motivate students with intense involvement in a subject and the power to develop in-depth understanding in ways not imagined a few years ago.. Vacca and Vacca (2014) p. 345.
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Trade books—whether picture books, fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—have the potential to motivate students with intense involvement in a subject and the power to develop in-depth understanding in ways not imagined a few years ago.. Vacca and Vacca (2014) p. 345.
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When teachers make the transition from textbook only classrooms to multitext classrooms, the focus of study becomes concepts rather than the content of one particular book. I know of no one textbook that contains enough information to help a student become even mildly expert on any topic.
Gail Ivey (2002)
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What are text sets? Text sets are collections of resources from different genre, media, and levels of reading difficulty that are designed to be supportive of the learning of readers with a range of experiences and interests.
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A text set collection focuses on one concept or topic and can include multiple genres such as books, charts and maps, informational pamphlets, poetry and songs, photographs, non-fiction books, almanacs or encyclopedias.
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Imagine
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A text set on the Titanic
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a photo
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a movie
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book
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letter
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In a history class discuss, how is the sinking of the Titanic a marked time period--a time when the world's viewpoint changed.
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Let us try it
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Directions: Around the room are various texts based on your subject areas. With a partner (or two) discover the four things on your “Searching for a Possible Text Set.”
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What you are looking for:
1. Explore a concept.
2. Question an idea that you might explore with your future class.
3. Find a new perspective.
4. A quote worth noting.
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What did you discover?
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren, poet
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